The Death Of Common Sense

Common Sense isn't common any more...
Neither is the younger generations work ethic...

I work fulltime, go to university passtime.
As for my spare time, I volunteer in Barnardos and am also a part time carer for my ex's grandma.

These comments and posts are ill-informed and rude at best, Where I volunteer there's 7 of us, 3 of that 7 are younger than I am and I am only 20. The rest are well in their 70's. Should I now go about labeling everyone from 21 to 69 lazy and selfish?

Ur doing a great job.....but for most of society and the younger generation, common sense, common courtesy, manners and other morals are lacking. And yes it's my generation which caused this by allowing the government to dictate how I raise my kids.

Dude, I'm a year younger than you and my kids are 5 and 3. I agree, they have zero common sense but still have more than this post.

Have you talked to enough people to come to that consensus?
I've been volunteering there for nigh on a year now, I have yet to see many middle-aged people volunteer.
Plenty of younger people though.

Edit: I'm not trying to be rude here, I just think it's an unfair label

Ur really the exception...... Most youth have their hands out and want things given. They have no desire to work hard.

-waits for statistics-

:drinker:

good grief

Amen

Have you talked to enough people to come to that consensus?
I've been volunteering there for nigh on a year now, I have yet to see many middle-aged people volunteer.
Plenty of younger people though.

Edit: I'm not trying to be rude here, I just think it's an unfair label

Ur really the exception...... Most youth have their hands out and want things given. They have no desire to work hard.

You can't really say "most"... maybe "many", but "most" is pushing it.

Some of us are working, volunteering with multiple non-profits, giving back to our parents, friends and family members, WHILE working full-time positions and pursuing higher degrees in school, I will agree that there are the "many" that are doing nothing.

Please don't lump us all into the lazy and ungrateful category and we won't do the same with your generation.

Oh good lord. I've seen this and several things like it. All things tends towards entropy. Every previous generation rails that the current one is destroying common sense and reliability. It is the nature of human beings to claim that it was "better back then."

Sunrise, sunset.

right, because for example, we know everything was AWESOME in the 1950s. many people didn't have rights, women were permitted to be abused by their partners in some states due to lack of domestic violence laws, etc, etc... yeah, what a great time
and everyone was terrified of communism too.

Common Sense isn't common any more...
Neither is the younger generations work ethic...

I work fulltime, go to university passtime.
As for my spare time, I volunteer in Barnardos and am also a part time carer for my ex's grandma.

These comments and posts are ill-informed and rude at best, Where I volunteer there's 7 of us, 3 of that 7 are younger than I am and I am only 20. The rest are well in their 70's. Should I now go about labeling everyone from 21 to 69 lazy and selfish?

Ur doing a great job.....but for most of society and the younger generation, common sense, common courtesy, manners and other morals are lacking. And yes it's my generation which caused this by allowing the government to dictate how I raise my kids.

Dude, I'm a year younger than you and my kids are 5 and 3. I agree, they have zero common sense but still have more than this post.

Sum do, most don't. Ur my age, so u tell me when u were young how many school shootings did u hear about? How many movie theaters shot up? How many juveniles were incarcerated as apposed to now? And now every time some does sumthn crazy, their labeled with sum kinda bipolar, multiple personality, crazy disorder. Wht happened to labeling them for wht they are, bad!!

Most of the stuff at school were stabbings. The shootings were happening in the streets and on the beltway. More young people are in school because of stricter drug laws and punishments.

I agree that ADD and the like is most likely over diagnosed but you will get that when pharmacology became a business rather than a quest.

Bottom line, your "kids today" rant (which is what this really is) is pretty much stereotypical and wrong.

Have you talked to enough people to come to that consensus?
I've been volunteering there for nigh on a year now, I have yet to see many middle-aged people volunteer.
Plenty of younger people though.

Edit: I'm not trying to be rude here, I just think it's an unfair label

Ur really the exception...... Most youth have their hands out and want things given. They have no desire to work hard.

You can't really say "most"... maybe "many", but "most" is pushing it.

Some of us are working, volunteering with multiple non-profits, giving back to our parents, friends and family members, WHILE working full-time positions and pursuing higher degrees in school, I will agree that there are the "many" that are doing nothing.

Please don't lump us all into the lazy and ungrateful category and we won't do the same with your generation.

I can see everyone's point, and have seen great, and crappy people, of all ages (yes, up to in their 90s, but can't swear I knew people older than that), and I think a ton of 'older' people (meaning like 40+) now take care of elderly parents at home, plus work, plus raise kids, plus may have health concerns, so that is why many I know personally do not volunteer additionally: I know tons of people about 40-65 who work in human services/animal services agencies, and very few younger people, but many things can contribute: are the jobs already taken? Is there transportation? Do the people give a crap about anyone? Are they always hung over or ill or worn out from work or glued to the sofa? There are tons of reasons, good and bad, for everything, so I can't say one group is good or bad. I do agree that there ain't that much common sense around, though, or courtesy, and I tend to blame a lot of it on the sheer numbers of people alive now (and stress, crowding, pollution, noise, etc. resulting), and the giant amounts of electronics and cellphones and other stuff in the air waves: technology and pollution can mess with a lot of health and mental health circumstances--and yup, there are statistics to back that up. I think it's too bad for everyone, because obviously everyone wants to be happy and to do well, and sometimes they just don't know how.